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Educational Messages in Tevfik Fikret's Poems
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Erdal, Kelime – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2011
Being in the education community for long years, Tevfik Fikret aims to educate children and teenagers with the works he has written while he is carrying out his profession. Knowing child's world very well, the poet gives messages which can be counted valid in today's education perception. Emphasizing the basic humanistic and moral values such as…
Descriptors: Poets, Adolescents, Moral Values, Patriotism
The British Schools' National Curriculum: English and the Politics of Teaching Poetry from "Different Cultures and Traditions"
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Doug, Roshan – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2011
This polemic paper illustrates the correlation between the original principles underpinning the British National Curriculum which was introduced in the late 1980s and the current quality of the nation's schools' poetry from a variety of poets including those "from other cultures and traditions". It argues that the conception of the…
Descriptors: National Curriculum, Poverty, Poetry, English Instruction
The Poetry of Turkish Village Institute-Educated Poets: Social Commentary on a Developing Nation
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Zabitgil, Ozlem – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of the study was to reach a close understanding of villagers' experience of change in the changing context of the Turkish Republic. The poetry books of two renowned literary figures Mehmet Basaran and Talip Apaydin were studied to investigate villagers' reactions and responses to various national changes. The literary work of these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Rural Schools, Social Change
Writing Out Loud: The Intellectual and Epistemological Work of Developing a Community of Poets in an Urban Elementary Classroom
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Pacheco, Denise L. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
In an era of reductionist approaches to teaching and assessment, this dissertation returns to the fundamental question: "What is the value of writing, particularly poetry writing, in our society today?" The poet's central task, to abstract reality through symbols, requires profound cognitive and emotional work (Vendler, 2004; Steele,…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Environment, Recognition (Achievement), Student Participation
Telling Tales out of School: Connecting the Prose and the Passion in the Learning and Teaching of English
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Goode, Jackie – Qualitative Inquiry, 2007
As U.K. school exam results continue to rise, perennial accusations appear in the media of the "dumbing down" of the curriculum and of employers' complaints about school leavers' lack of basic literacy skills. In this context, Andrew Motion, the poet laureate, has raised questions about how to provide an inspiring English curriculum, the…
Descriptors: English Curriculum, Student Journals, Story Telling, Poets
Why a "Romantic" Conception of Education Matters
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Halpin, David – Oxford Review of Education, 2006
Romanticism's valuing of love and the life of the imagination, combined with its belief in human potential taken heroically to and beyond its limits, provides a way of addressing differently and fruitfully certain issues to do with pedagogy in schools, making in particular better sense of what it means to be an effective teacher and a productive…
Descriptors: Romanticism, Intimacy, Imagination, English Literature